15 Ghosts and Roots(1/2)
Bai Yutang and his friends found a strange building on the side of an abandoned road in the wilderness by tracking the whereabouts of the brown-end black shade butterfly equipped with a locator.
The environment at this time is as dark as the moon is windy. The house in the distance can be seen as a ghost house. And looking from here, the house is quite large.
At this time, the house was pitch black and no lights came out. It is impossible to determine whether there is anyone in the house, whether it is a private house or a abandoned house. Even if a butterfly flew in, you cannot trespass on the private house just because a butterfly flew into the house, but the existence of this house is indeed unreasonable.
Jiang Ping investigated the information of residents nearby and said to Bai Yutang, "Captain, this forest area is privately owned. There are no residents in a few miles apart except for an old factory that has been closed in the distance."
Bai Yutang frowned, and Zhan Zhao was wondering, "From the forest area? Where are the forests here? All the trees have been cut down."
"Does this belong to the suburbs of S City?" Bai Yutang asked.
"No, I have already left City S, belonging to the suburbs of City K, and it is also a remote suburb. This area is used as long-term lease of forest land." Jiang Ping said, "This land was rented to a businessman named Xu Mei thirty years ago. This man immigrated to Mexico twenty years ago."
Bai Yutang frowned, "How long is the lease term for this land?"
"The rent is quite cheap for a fifty-year lease period." Jiang Ping said, "This road is almost abandoned and should be considered as rarely visited."
Everyone looked through the car window and looked at the strange lonely house under the moonlight in the distance.
"How old is that Xu Mei?"
At this time, Zhao Jue suddenly asked.
"Well, according to identity information, I am 65 years old this year." Jiang Ping replied.
Zhao Jue raised his eyebrows slightly, and didn't say much, just nodded, touching his chin with his fingers, as if he was calculating something.
"Why go and have a look!" Zhan Zhao was excited.
Gongsun is also very interested.
Bai Yutang looked speechlessly at the two people who had the lowest military power but the most courageous and feared that the world would not be in chaos, and said, "I'll go and see first, you two are waiting here for me."
After saying that, Bai Yutang got off the car. Originally, he wanted to take Luo Tian with him, but Ma Han came over to stop him, "You can't go like this."
Bai Yutang looked at him in confusion.
Ma Han said, "You look at the ground."
Everyone looked at the ground... Everyone discovered it just now. Although this area was called a forest area, almost all the trees were cut down, leaving behind one tree root after another.
Zhao Hu asked, "Emma, there will be no landmines, right?"
Everyone looked at him speechlessly.
Qin Ou touched her chin and observed the ground, "It's not accurate."
Bai Yutang probably understood what Ma Han was worried about, "Do you think you were deliberately cutting off the trees so that there would be no obstacle?"
"Walking like this, the people on the second floor can hit the gun, and even a slingshot can hit the bottom, it is simply a living target." Ma Han said, "It's too risky."
"Then just drive over?" Zhan Zhao, who ran out of nowhere, suggested.
"What if there are anti-tank mines?" Zhao Hu felt that there were traps no matter how he looked at it.
Everyone looked at him speechlessly, and Ma Han knocked him on the head - you are in a rebellious way!
Bai Yutang also frowned. If he brought people there rashly, it would be fine. There was a real accident. He would not be able to dismantle him when he went back to the office...
While everyone was discussing, Zhao Jue leaned out of the car door and said, "Oh, that little devil ran away."
Everyone was stunned and saw a black shadow jumping out of the car window and running towards the "ghost house". Isn't it just Chen Xiaofei who was caught by them just now?
Bai Yutang and Luo Tian quickly chased after him, Zhan Zhao looked at Zhao Jue with his eyes squinted - you didn't stop him!
Zhao Jue spread his hands, "He looked very excited when he saw the ghost house, after all, he was a child." After that, he jumped out of the car and walked towards the big house.
Zhan Zhao hurriedly followed him.
As it turned out, everyone was worried about their previous concerns. There were no ambushing snipers, slingshots, etc. in the house. Everyone successfully arrived at the door of the mansion, and the surveillance car drove over and parked in the open space in front of the door.
Bai Yutang grabbed Chen Xiaofei who was running fast at the gate. This man was also a bit interesting. He finally got the chance and did not escape, but rushed to the mansion.
Bai Yutang threw Chen Xiaofei to Qin Ou, and that was the point, watching him.
Chen Xiaofei was honest with her neck holding on, and looked up at the mansion with her face.
When they got closer, everyone finally saw the full picture of this lonely house...
The construction style of this house is quite strange, some of which are like bell towers, with low walls and high roofs. From the outside, there are only two floors, and the door is as high as two people. There is a petal-shaped window on top, covered with colorful glass.
"This..." Zhan Zhao observed, "It looks like a church."
"Well, I'm missing a cross. With it, it's the way to build a church." Zhao Jue also nodded.
Walking up the steps, the door is a black wooden door and there is a doorbell at the door.
Luo Tian rang the doorbell... The old-fashioned electric bell rang in the mansion. I wonder if the house was very empty, and everyone could hear clear echoes.
The electric bell rang for a long time, but no one answered.
Luo Tian smashed the door again, but no one answered the door. Everyone looked at each other - is it the empty house?
Ma Han turned on the two searchlights on the roof of the surveillance vehicle.
Under the strong light, everyone saw the whole picture of the mansion. Although the house was pitch black, there were very delicate textures on the walls. It looked like tree bark, and a quaint feeling came to the face. Moreover, the main body was made of wooden structures. Nowadays, wooden structure houses are rare.
"This is an old house." Zhao Jue touched his chin and admired it. "It was not built now, but moved from another place as a whole."
Zhan Zhao instigated Bai Yutang and "poke the door in."
Bai Yutang thought about it and pointed at Zhao Zhen, who came over to watch the fun.
Zhao Zhen observed the door lock, took out two thin iron rods like hairpins from his pocket, and started prying the door.
Zhao Hu, Ma Han, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu divided into two groups and circled around the mansion. After gathering at the back, they spared and told Bai Yutang that the mansion had a big door in front, without a back door, and it looked like an ancient castle behind it. The walls were high and there was a window on the top. They all suspected that there was something wrong with the lighting of the mansion.
Zhao Zhen pried open the door lock without much time and said, "Old lock, this era is rare."
Bai Yutang and Luo Tian reached out and pushed open the huge wooden door on one side.
Behind, Zhao Hu and Ma Han held a gun in one hand and a strong flashlight in the other, shining into the door.
The moment the door opened, a smell of mold came to my face.
Everyone couldn't help but frown. This was the problem with wooden houses. It was easy to produce this mildew smell due to moisture, especially when it was uninhabited for a long time.
Qin Ou was holding the unhonest Chen Xiaofei behind him. The boy didn't know why, and he showed great curiosity about this mansion.
Zhan Zhao observed him and felt that... he should know something. At least Chen Xiaofei had much more information than they did about this mansion.
The light shone into the mansion, and what caught my eye was the photos of the walls.
Everyone was shocked by the sudden visual impact, and they were stunned at the door and couldn't speak, and the scene was a bit... terrible.
Everyone didn't notice any furniture in the mansion because the walls were so attractive!
The wall opposite the door is all the way up to the roof, with no layers, and one wall is very complete. On this wall, photo frames as big as eight-piece paper are hung, and there are photos in each photo frame.
The weirdest thing is these photos!
What hung on the wall was not a landscape or a decorative painting, but a black and white photo, and a black and white big head. Each photo was a big face on the front, his eyes were ashen, with no spirit, staring straight at the direction of the door...
“This is not a photo.”
At this time, Zhao Jue suddenly spoke.
Everyone was stunned.
Zhan Zhao searched at the door and found something like a switch.
Qin Ou pushed the switch up, and everyone heard the sound of the generator operation and looked at each other - there was electricity!
Zhan Zhao pressed the two power switches at the door... In an instant, the room lit up.
The white light with a little blue light illuminated the entire hall, and the impact of the entire wall was still unabated, but at the same time, everyone also understood what Zhao Jue said - "It's not a photo".
These black and white ones are portrait pencil drawings!
Bai Yutang frowned, "Isn't this a ghost painting?"
Zhan Zhao nodded, and the painting of the underworld was a portrait drawn by a specialist painter for the dead, which was used to place it in a mourning hall or stick it on a tombstone.
Zhao Jue stood by the wall with his hands behind his back, raised his face and carefully watched the paintings. While looking at them, he smiled slightly, waved to everyone, pointed to one of the paintings, and let everyone see them.
Zhan Zhao and others looked in the direction of Zhao Jue's finger and saw that it was a portrait of a middle-aged man.
"Huh?" Zhao Zhen was also stunned, "Isn't this Wu Hua?"
The rest of the people were shocked... They just grabbed Chen Xiaofei, who was pretending to be the god of death, on Wu Hua's wake, but why did Wu Hua's portrait hang here?
At this time, Xiao Baichi had quickly scanned the portraits and said, "These are all the dead in the accidental death case! The victims of the cases we investigated this time are all inside."
Everyone frowned.
Gongsun touched his chin, "Oh, so many familiar ones."
"That's what."
Just as everyone was staring at the photos in a daze, they heard Zhao Zhen reminding him, "Do you want to look at the back?"
Following his words, everyone turned around and turned back... and was shocked again.
Just see two big trees opposite the photo wall, which is on the wall where the door is located.
To be continued...